~Mi Vida Loca~RN ASN, RN

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    Just finished

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    I do have one make up clinical day but it is only 4 hours in the nursing lab doing simulation, it actually sounds like we will learn more skill wise then we did in the nursing home. I learned things...
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    Oh no! What are employers going to think of this?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to nkenn04's topic in General Nursing

    No worries, I didn't think you were being disrespectful at all, I just thought maybe I missed something
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    Oh no! What are employers going to think of this?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to nkenn04's topic in General Nursing

    I am in an ADN program and will be sitting for my RN I am not
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    Can RN student take the LPN test?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Dadou82's topic in General Students

    I am in CO and I know they offer this at my school as well. A classmate of mine plans on doing that this summer because her employer is more willing to work with her school schedule if she is an LPN...
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    What color are your school uniforms?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Students

    I am in CO where winter coats are a must lol, we have jackets we can order for IN the facility. We can't wear unapproved coats inside the building, right now I am in LTC so I have no need for the long...
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    What color are your school uniforms?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Students

    I am shadowing at the Jail tomorrow for a Multi Cultural project and we are not allowed to wear our scrubs for that and the 4th semester students that picked the jail for their focused clinical can...
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    Need to vent about manual BP

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to OrthoFNP's topic in General Students

    First of all I am not fired up, second of all I have not said you were a mean person out to harm your patient or that you are an idiot or anything like that. If you read the post of YOURS that I...
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    What color are your school uniforms?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Students

    I'm not sure I agree with this, I am a first time college student if you include my pre reqs (although I feel like I have been in college forever with pre reqs and a 3.5 year wait list) but I did not...
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    Need to vent about manual BP

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to OrthoFNP's topic in General Students

    WOW it never ceases to amaze me how people act when they don't hear exactly what they want to hear. You stated that you all took his pressure MANY times only SECONDS a part. That is not good and will...
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    Random vents

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to nyteshade's topic in General Nursing

    Wow I don't hear that often LOL, Thank you
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    What area do you work in? Pro's & Cons?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to RetroReactive's topic in General Nursing

    Be prepared that it might change a lot as you go through your program lol, when I was pre nursing I had my units I would NOT want to work on, they consisted of Burn Unit (fire is my biggest fear and I...
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    Random vents

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to nyteshade's topic in General Nursing

    I saw that part I was just going off on my own after responding to your post. Sorry about
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    Random vents

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to nyteshade's topic in General Nursing

    We have not done our clinicals in the hospital yet, only the LTC and the only things that goes on there for us to have opportunities really is Blood Sugars, and Foley's which the CNA's can't do and...
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    Random vents

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to nyteshade's topic in General Nursing

    In response to your post, I will say you or your in general, please know I am not speaking about you. When I said I am going out of my way to be polite, I am talking about to someone that is being...
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    Random vents

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to nyteshade's topic in General Nursing

    That is great you do that, their are a few nurses that graduated in the past couple years at my clinicals that have been great and really friendly and let us know anytime their was an opportunity for...
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    No One Dies Alone (NODA) Program

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    I think this is a great thing (for those that want it) I just had my first experience with death in my clinicals. It was a bad week in the hospice unit that day as 4 patients passed and all were left...
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    Random vents

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to nyteshade's topic in General Nursing

    I saw this the other day, they ask for "help" AKA give me all the ideas, you give them ideas and then they say, nah what else do you got basically
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    Random vents

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to nyteshade's topic in General Nursing

    I am a student and so far have been having a great experience so I don't have a lot to vent about yet, one thing I have seen though- To some of the nurses (at least half at the LTC facility we are...
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    What did you do during OB rotation?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to milan18400's topic in General Students

    We haven't done OB/Peds yet, we do it next semester, I have had 4 kids and have had students present but never had a student check me. I would think that nurses wouldn't be trained in that until...
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    Why can students re-sit math exams but not the others?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to DolceVita's topic in General Students

    The thing is though, the calculation process isn't going to change, so once you get how to solve for x you got it, you just have to keep up on the practicing so you don't forget, which is why at my...
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    Why can students re-sit math exams but not the others?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to DolceVita's topic in General Students

    We have 3 tries to pass with 100%. I think it's different because with math, once you know how to do it the application of it doesn't change, but it does take practice. The stress of having to get...
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    Need to vent about manual BP

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to OrthoFNP's topic in General Students

    I agree, we were taught that it was very important to wait in between to get accurate pressures and also for the patient it is to much to keep taking the BP over and over again. We were also taught to...
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    What color are your school uniforms?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Students

    We have cele (smurf) blue scrubs with our logo sewn in the tops in white on the right chest side, we have to wear white socks and white shoes (all white), we can wear white long sleeves under the top...
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    ethical issues in nursing practices

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to maryam lakhdir's topic in General Students

    I helped you out I gave you some ideas that you will find lots of arguments on both sides
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    Do you have to be smart to be a nurse?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to ladynurse266's topic in General Students

    Tests in nursing school are much different then Pre Req tests, I never did well on exams on my pre reqs but I do well on the ones in nursing